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Water quality control
Environmental protection has, for at least the last 50 years, been a major concern in the civilized
nations of the world. The concern initially was limited to public health but has, since the 1970s,
been expanded to include the environment. As stewards of our environment, we are responsible for
the protection of the environment, for our own sakes and for the benefit of generations to follow. It
is accepted that humankind cannot continue to advance technologically while ignoring the envi-
ronmental deterioration that occurs when we irresponsibly discharge the waste from our tech-
nology. Indeed, the sustainable growth of our civilization requires, as the only reasonable and
feasible way to coexist on our planet with nature, that we protect our fragile environment. Much
of the legislation promulgated to provide environmental protection has the purpose of not only
non-deterioration of present environmental conditions, but the improvement of these conditions so
that past abuse is corrected.
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